Top Sports Games of All Time

When you think of sports video games your mind goes straight to FIFA, PES, Madden and maybe even the classic PGA Tour series, but there's more to sports video games than these mainstays.

Before FIFA tied up licenses and made football games all professional you'd find all kinds of football video games hoping to be the next big thing. Actua Soccer, Red Card Soccer, Sensible Soccer, and other games incorrectly using soccer instead of football all had a go at finding that winning formula – some doing better than others.

Microsoft once tried its hand at first-party sports line-up for Xbox, which included tennis, golf, NHL, NBA, NFL, snowboarding and even rallying. The games were at the time pretty good, but the XSN brand died and so did Microsoft's first-party sports offering. Many of these games ended up at 2K.

Even Midway had success with its arcade-style Blitz games in the '90s and noughties.

These days the sports genre is dominated by the output from EA Sports – with SEGA, 2K chipping in with a few titles here and there - but just how many of these big budget titles will make the list. Find out below.